Monday, August 31, 2009
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Relic
Antique, glass vial reliquary (1/2" by 3") containing a very substantial vestment and a whole tooth relic of the Reverand Mother Superior Therese of Bavoz. Abess of the Pradines, imprisoned during the French revolution and released from prison only three days before her planned execution. Wax seal unbroken and all in place. Comes in a linen pouch with a letter describing the relics. See the original listing here.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Ectoplasm
Medium, Dorothy Henderson, October 2, 1928
Materialization was the word used in the circles of psychical researchers to describe a phenomenon that first became common in séances in the 1870s: the summoning of spirit presences in the form of objects and of bodies, or of traces of objects and bodies—touches to the cheek or hands of the sitters, slaps or caresses or breezes as of something passing, sometimes fingerprints or other marks, the sounds of bells ringing or ethereal music, apported flowers and other gifts from the spirits, and, above all, ectoplasmic manifestations. These took two predominant forms: luminous, veiled, phantom-like beings, or revenants...
-from Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm by Marina Warner in Cabinet
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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